More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.
